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Arabic mathematical notation

Editing math formulas for arabic scientific texts is far more than allowing Right-To-Left text. MathType has been developed following W3C Arabic Mathematical notation recomendations.

There is still work to be done. We will appreciate your comments and feedback.

We cannot give you support in Arabic yet.

الرموز الرياضية باللغة العربية

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Mirroring - RTL mode

Mathematical symbols have to be mirrored to keep their mathematical meaning in Right-to-Left writting (RTL).

For example, the Left-to-Right expression  is shown as  if using th RTL mode. Arabic letters are also supported by the system. The former formula would tipycally look like .
Other mathematical expressions are mirrored to follow the Arabic notation tradition . For example, in Saudi Arabia a square root like  is represented as  in RTL mode.

Numbers in Arabic languages

Different region in the Arabic countries use different notation for numbers. We have implemented Arabic-Indic and Eastern Arabic-Indic numbers

Variables ligatures

Arabic characters, when written together, are typografically joined with the so called ligatures.

In mathematics, variable names are typically formed by a unique character. Hence by default we consider every character a stand alone mathematical variable, and so without ligatures. But we recognize some standard words, and we automatically add ligatures to them. Also you can manually add ligatures, using the button.

Technical overview

Implementation of W3C
Arabic mathematical notation

www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math

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